In a recent article for Grantmakers in Health, Rick Ybarra, senior program officer at the Hogg Foundation, explores how philanthropy can contribute to supporting and building a stronger, more robust, and durable nonprofit sector.
Philanthropy has forever espoused the term “sustainability.” We ask in grant applications and in our conversations with grant partners: “What’s your sustainability plan?” and “How do you plan to sustain your program once the grant ends?” Read more…
Police Violence and Black Women’s Health (Part 1 of 2)
“We have got to look at the social context that produces certain kinds of experiences for people—and that’s directly tied to social determinants,” Dr. Christen Smith says. “Unfortunately, in the world we’re living right now, police violence is a social determinant.”...
Police Violence and Black Women’s Health (Part 2 of 2)
“One of the things that we tend to do when we talk about state violence is think about it in a quantitative way,” Dr. Christen Smith says. “What I really want to do is disrupt that traditional approach, and really say no.” Police violence, for black communities in the...
$1.3 Million Awarded to Train Mental Health Policy Fellows and Peer Policy Fellows in Texas
Ten nonprofit advocacy groups received a total of $1.3 million in grants over two years to hire in-house policy or peer policy fellows. The Mental Health Policy Academy and Fellows initiative, launched in 2010, builds both individual and organizational...
Mental Health in the College Classroom
The University of Texas at Austin’s Well-Being in Learning Environments program is helping students succeed.
Mental Health in the College Classroom
“I believe that happy students are productive students,” Nina Telang says. Between 2009 and 2017, the amount of students seeking services from the Counseling and Mental Health Center (CMHC) at The University of Texas at Austin grew by 62 percent. While the data might...